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2020/08/23

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle

- Socrates

2020/08/18

Judy, Judy, Judy

This is more just a note to self since I keep forgetting the name of this painting...

Judith beheading Holofernes

Also, and more subversively, Kehinde Wiley's take...

Wiley’s 2012 take on Judith and Holofernes causes a stir

.....yes, that Kehinde Wiley....as in the official President Obama portrait painter.

I'm Buying Stock in Pitchfork Companies Now

Yves absolutely nails it with this article:

What Will the Real American Resistance Look Like — Chaotic Rebellion or Organized General Strikes?

"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
—Jay Gould, 1886

It’s normally a bad idea to denigrate the other side’s supporters in a fight, especially in a political fight like the one we’re currently witnessing, and especially when the game that’s really being played is the oligarch’s version of Eric Berne’s “Let’s You and Him Fight” — the one where the rich get the poor to kill each other, while they steal the both of them blind."

2020/08/16

Ouroboros

I was this old when I learned that a serpent eating its tail is known as an: Ouroboros

How Do You Spell Kakistocracy Again?

"The Democratic-run House on Sunday demanded that leaders of the U.S. Postal Service testify at an emergency oversight hearing Aug. 24 on mail delays as concerns grow that the Trump White House is trying to undermine the agency during the coronavirus pandemic while states expand mail-in voting options for the November presidential election."

House Dems summon postal leaders to hearing on mail delays

Time To Fight

From the article outlining why Wisconsin might be in play for Joe Biden:

How Suffering Farmers May Determine Trump’s Fate

"His current mood reminded him of an unruly cow that once wandered off his farm. “I was on a four-wheeler and was trying to round her up,” he said. “I chased her round and round. Then she got tired of me chasing her and she stopped, turned, and she was going to fight. She was too tired to run, but she was going to use what she had left. She was challenging me—she was going to fight. I guess that’s where I’m at. I’m running my ass off, I’m tired, and I don’t have the energy to run anymore. But, by God, I’ve got enough in me to stand here and fight.”